“The future is never written…only penciled in.”

“Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop”

“God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.”

“The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.”

“Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.”

“In order to write all a man needs is paper and a pencil. Furthermore, when a thing has been written, it is written forever. When it is printed, nothing can stop it from being printed again and again if the thing wants to be printed again and again. I must therefore be a writer.”

“It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.”

“I am not as these are, the poet saith
In youth's pride, and the painter, among men
At bay, where never pencil comes nor pem”

“The future! ah, there hath the spirit its home,
In its distance is written the glorious to come.”

“Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.”